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The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-02-12
THE WORLD OF LABOR.

Knights Labor in Louisville, KY, are Of
talking of establishing evening schools.
Mr. Powderly's defense assessment, twenty
five cents on each member, will realize
100000
The National organizer of the BARRIERS Pro
tectye union is making rapid progress. In
Philadelphia he recently started a branch
with 800 members
In 1886 there were 1,9Jl strikes, in 1888 only
223. In 1886 there were 723 successful strikes,
increasing wages S9s7, O19; the loss Of wages
by strikes was 81, S5S, l9l. OF 2j6 strikes for
shorter hours Il succeeded, making work for
1,0S3 more men yesterday.
Tennessee City, about fifty miles from Men,
phis, is a new cooperative town. Those inter
ested are very enthusiastic IN their statements
concerning the town They say that the War
ner furnace near by, which is now out OF re-
pair, will be put in order at once, and in about
thirty days will be in operation. The Knights
will manufacture nails and employ 800 men
in the nail factory. Brick machines having
n capacity of $4,000 per day have been bought
and shipped and as soon rs the colony Is In
running order the capacity will be increased
TO 90 600
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-02-12
rIrst Instance of Co-educatIon.

Cushman X. Davis, the new senator from
Minnesota, attended Carroll college, an III
cipient seat of learning at Waukesha, Wis
Carroll college is now n thing of the past, but
il once promised TO be a large and famou.
school 1t was the first notable instance OF
co-education in the United States The plan
worked well there. The girls did the cooking
and the boys furnished the meat and gro
ceries. and if the good friends Of the institu
ton had been numerous and rich enough t.
provide salaries for the professors, the exper
iment might by this time have become one o.
the marvels of western civilization. -Detroi
Free Press
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-02-12

A few days ago a certain member Of con-
ere,s-his identity is immatcral-took part
i'm the long and short haul discussion. Il
feel it my duty" he said, " to vote for this
measure" The alert correspondent of San
Francisco paper teleuaphed this utterance,
adding in parenthesis after the word
measure" the words long and short haul
But either through the "cus-e,lncss' of the
wires, or the superior wisdom of the proof
reader, the sentence was printed as follows
81 feel it my duty to vote for this measure.
G.ong and short howls) New York
Tribune.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-02-12

into existence, fol-
lowed by the West
iDghouse Machine
company, later the
Philadelphia Nat
ural Gas company
and about a year
ago the Westing-
house Electric
Light company.
In all of these enter
.prises Mr.. Westing-
house is the control
ling spirit. The
number Of men
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-02-12
WALT wHITMAN's HOME.

v5g M has written all bis lifetime, and yet is
s,.l1 'u. a publisher for his works. Consid-
l,le.. u',llculiy was experienced by the pub
e. VINO attempted 20 issue his Leaves of
s s,a@'' On account Of certain lines in the
H,,."'nnlc n were objected 10 by many critics.
tive ald OF writing is peculiar and distinc-
b. 6s @1u mas drawn much attention, though
H,one,. "o' been successful in making any
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-02-12
II Would Remove the Remains.

AGENT selling preparation for removing
stains from clothng-I have got here
servaut (uho responds to the agents ring
Excuse me, please; but we are in great
trouble here to-day. The gentleman of the
house has been blown up in an explosion.
Ala. hurt much, S.-Blown to atoms.
Only "a grease spot left Of him. Ala!
Only grease spot, You say Well, here's a
bottle Of my champion eradicator which will
remove that grease spot in two minutes
Charleston Mass Enterprise.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-02-12
GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE, JR.
How He Has Been Rewarded for His In
Cenuity.

How He Has Been Rewarded for His In
genuity.
The Westinghouse air brake has carried
the name of its inventor TO every land in
which is found the iron rail, even the cars OF
the single railroad in Japan use this brake.
Mr. Westinghouse hes given his attention to
other mechanical appliances until list OF
his inventions covered 10y patents now num-
Der 1000 The subject TO which he has
given his latest attention is the utilization OF
natural gas, and in this he has 50 well sue
ceeded that gas is about the only fuel burned
in Pittsburg
II is only fifteen years since Mr.. Westing-
house began the manufacture of his own IN
ventions; to-day his factories are located on
two continents, giving employment TO be-
tween 5000 and 1900 men. About 1872 the
Westinghouse air brake works were erected
at Pittsburg. Two years later branch works
were established in England, and since then
works have been built at Paris and in Ger
many.
After the brake manufactures were or
gained so the whole railway world could be
supplied with his invention, Mr.. Westing-
house turned his attention TO other fields. The
Union Switch and Signal company next came
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-02-12
SNOWFLAKES.
Where do they go,

Where do they so,
The melting flakes Of the bright white snow!
They 90 to nourish the April showers;
They 60 % foster the ,laytime flowers;
Where the roots of the hidden grasses grow'
There do they 80.
How do they go?
Drop after drop, in a silent Cow,
When the warm rain falls, and the WINDS are
loud,
And the swallow sings in the rift Of the cloud,
Through the frozen veins Of the earth below
They softly go.
Why do they gOf
Because Dame Nature viii have 1t sol
More than this, truly, cannot tell:
am neither a seer nor an Baclel
When all is answered, only know,
That they come and 60
Kate Putnam Osgood.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-02-12
NEBUCHADNEZzAR.


You NcNuchadnezzah, whoa. sahi
Whar is YOU tryin' TO go, sahs
I'd hab YOU for TO know, sab,
is a-lsodin' Oh de lines.
You better stop dat prancin',
You's pow'ful fond oh dancin',
But III BET my yeah's advancin'
Dat I'll cure YOU oh your shines.
Look hcab. mue' Better min out
Fus' TING YOU know youll I'm out
How quick I'll wear dis line out
on your ugly, stubborn back.
You needn't try 90 steal up
IN lif' dat precious heel up;
Nou's got 20 pillow dis Gel up,
You has, sab, for fac.
Oar. OATS de- way 10 DO IT,
Hes comm right down TO it;
Jcs' watch him plowin' trooitl
Dis niger amt no fool.
Some FOLKS dcy would a beat him;
Now dat would only heat him
! know ics how 10 treat him
You mus reason wild a mule.
Tie minds me like a Niger;
IL he was only bigger
TC'd fetch mighty lggcr.
lie would. tell you, Yes, sahl
S,c how DE- Keeps a-clicEinI
ICES as gentle as % chicken,
An D.. Ter thinks o. kicl,in'-
Whoa dar, Ncbuchadnezzah!
Is dis hceh me. or not me?
On a.. .f.f,f.if fr.f f.ras
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-02-12
The Ware. Were Agreeable.

Sidney Smith was always ready TO amuse an
evening company by cutting paper into curl
Gus figures and by a display Of clever tricks,
for all Of which his demand in payment was
a kiss from each young lady present. His
biographer tells us that his company was
much sought -Somerville Journal
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-02-12
WIT wrIrNAN AT HOME.

WALT WHITMAN AT HOME.
T..r..t is seated in a large armchair Of
.l. r.-syu LONG since questionable, and
r..-,.. back of which is tossed an enormous
a-alle. presented to the poet 10y the
vr. aie, of the u.-hborhood. Re does
rtr.s tamsat the visitor, but with an air
fr-nme codia.i,y asks That he be seated.
irnl room are evidences Of the start
--ru.onveu-0ual.tv of his mode of living,
everything B., of the plaiuest sort, and the
vrla. contrast between this little work
u3m" a, D. delights TO call it, and the so
termed studies" "a. other writers, Is some
thin. striking, 20 say The leas. \ plain old
fashioned maple bod,tead is covered by
snowy white linen sheets and patchwork
Quilt that must have been made by hands that
have long ago ceased their labor Of love An
oltma wood stove that stood in the center
o. Ole room brought 20 the writer's mind
rc0lac.0rs of cllhoods home and tho
stove iu the "best room that had been for
gotten many years before Piles of wood
that lined The wall beneath the mantel
showed good provision for the long
winter s few odd bits of equally
rustic and antique patterned furniture
i completed the picture that seemed 60 be a
part u. 'le poet lie had been reading from
ama.l book a, the time of the visit here de
a.bel. and the first impression received
Was one Of surprise, FOR, dies bite his great
a5s and white locks, he used no glasses
-ll seemed easily able 10 read the Snail
] l.rt Ills hair long and white, hung grace
fully down over his shoulders, and the long
White bard that covered the greater part Of
Dis lace .eat him the appearance Of one far
I past bis number Of years.
AN open front shirt, with a great broad
collar, which be never ceases 10 keep open in
summer or winter, and a suit of soft gray
Color, was Tie simple costume in which he
vas found I'm conversation he was q fluent
ia.aer BIAS good strong musical voice, and
lla nothing better than TO have some one
.aWlIe and tell him Of the doings Of the
great busy world without 1t has been his
l-0i Tor years 20 cross and recrOss the ferry
''"e-n Philadelphia and Camden, and
A'.Ans bat the bowling Worcester" could
-ll'e him 20 stay at home and miss his
''ol.e study Of character on the big boats
Ua' ply tae Delaware river. His great
q, desire is % write poems upon
nature % her different moods, and 10 ac-
v,lnil,4 this he incessantly tramped
ao'l' ia Ile woods and fields and along the
'-'ei edge, but his face has been sadly
.''''7l by those who We're wont 10 meet him
-.'4 l-. highways or the boats, and catch
19 sunny smile and cheerful "Howdy, sir"
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-02-12
4 EOreboding.

"Your honor" pleaded the condemned
man. "wiI you put my execution for Thurs
day instead of Friday
"Why| inquired the judge.
because Friday is such an unlucky day."
New York Sun.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-02-12

COCA, gray poet
Walt Whitman is
now i'm his GSth
year. He was born
on Long Island in
,ISl9 On reaching
manhood De was
alternately printer.
school teacher, rc-
porter, magazine
writcr, and finally
editor and publish
or OF a weekly
newspaper His
restless nature led
him toatruo B0he-
mian l.le, which ho
lived for a dozen
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-02-12
WALT WHITMAN.
..e PROPOSAL TO PENSION THE
'H' ECCENTRIC POET.

rohc~ian-His Restless Nature
BOZ tin . Quiet Little House
Re-" IA visit 10 the Good,
cray roe|
AUCTION Of a bill into congress
The m., .,1.ion Of So a month TO Walt
ran''ns. inns, Of his war services as hos
Wh'.ma" cou. attention once more 70 the
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-02-12

GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE. employed in the
different works is about as follows
The air brake company employs about
1900, the Union Switch company $50
men. the machine company 80 and the cleo
trio company 300 The number employed by
the natural gas company varies from about
400 in winter 10 1000 in summer or the Pipe
laying season.
Many people have an idea that Mr.. West
inghouse struggled from poverty TO his pres
ent millions. This was not the case. He is
the son Of a Schenectady y. Y, manufact-
urer of agricultural implements. He
graduated from Cornell in 1861. He enlisted
i'm the civil war first as engineer on the war
ship Mustwetah and afterward as member
of New York cavalry regiment. His ex-
perience in repairing railroad wrecks after
Confederate raiders suggested TO him device
for replacing derailed cars. This was the
beginning of his career as an inventor. lie
settled in Pittsburg and has since lived there.
MIR Westinghouse home is situated just
outside the Pittsburg city limits. 1t IS mis-
named solitude" for Mrs. Westinghouse Is a
most charming hostess and their residence IS
the scene of many and brilliant social gather
ings Receptions are held every Friday and
the Westinghouse dinner parties are said to
be elegance itself. Mrs Westinghouse was a
Miss Walker of New York. She has but one
child boy of years
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-27

able climate and business possibili-
ties, and have found that skill, en-
erey aud industry, acting in 8 fair
field, are sure TO be rewarded. Some
OF them have built up considerable
fortunes, aud fewer failures are re-
ported 10 occur among them than
among any similar number OF mer
camille men in the country.
Chattanooga is very iayorably stu
ated for commerce. It's location mid
way between the cotton growing and
grain raising States gives it decided
advantages as q wholesale market.
BY direct lines of railway it now has
trade with Northern Georgia, Ala
bama, Mississippi, Southern Ken
lucky, aud East and West Tennessee,
and by river with Hast Tennessee and
Northern Alabama. The removal OF
the Instructions to the Tennessee at
Muscle Shoals will give it water com =
munieation nine months in the year
with the Ohio, Cumberland, Nilsson
ri, and Mississippi rivers, aud bring
New Orleans and st. Louis as near
20 il as they arc now to Pittsburgh,
Pa. Already the general government
has oxpea3ed yearly 5000, 900 upon
these distractions, and another 1900,
90 will eomPlete the work. Chat
tauo0SA will then have transrorta-
tioa facilities unsurpassed by those
Of Aay inland city in the Union.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-27
An Anihor,n ExnHrience.

From q letter 10 the London Stan
dard. Mr.. Marston says there is no
secret profit" for publishers, and |
have no reason for disbelieving him,
and no wish to do 80. 1t is very
natural when authors question pub
fishers honesty publishers should
question authors ability; and doubt
less there are knaves and fools on
both sides; but, as "A London
Publisher" says: IAN ounce Of fact
is worth = pound Of dreams and flo,
tiOn"-history versus romance--and
here is an ounce of fact. Many
years ago-I am sorry to say pub
lished my first novel, probably not a
very wise one. | paid ECO to a firm
Of publishers, and they agreed to
give me half profits. With the san
guine enthusiasm Of youth, | fire.
quently called to inquire how it was
going off, and az frequently came
back sadder, but--as it subsequent
ly turned out--certainly not wiser
man. Eventually, when | had been
finally informed that the firm had
lost by their desperate venture, the
book being in two thin volumes, |
happened to mention the sad fact of
my literary failure to a friend, who
knew something of the ways of pub
fishers who are not--well not like
Mr.. Marston. He called, instead OF
me, at their office, aud after a stormy
interview, during which he made
use Of threats which, if it be fact
that the author cannot insist ON see
ing his publishers books, were so
much brutum fulmen, extracted a
substantial sum Of over ElOO, |
think it was from the gentlemen who
had LOST by the venture, ..L
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-27

ct. Millions phrase always fingers in
my mind as one of imperishable
beauty where he regrets that he is
drawn by | know not what from be-
holding the bright countenance OF
truth in the quiet and still air Of de-
lightful studies. | think the truth
in all its order and walks, that quiet
moderation and Judgment, are more
than the fash aud the glitter even of
the greatest genius. | hope that your
professors of rhetoric will teach you
to cultivate a language in which
truth can be told-an eloquence
without trick, without affectation,
without mannerisms, and without
any OF that excessive ambition which
overleaps itself as much in prose
writing as it does in ether walks. |
have made it clear that we conceive
the end of education on its literary
side to be TO make man and not a
cyclopedia, to make a citizen and
not a book of elegant extracts. Lit
erature does not act with knowledge
of forms, with inventories of books
and authors, with finding of the key
of rhythm, with the varying measure
of the stanza, or the changes from
the involved and sonorous periods Of
the seventeenth century down to
che staccato of the nineteenth cen
tury, or all the rest of the
technicalities of scholarship. Do
not think | contemn these. These
are good things to know, but they
are not ends in themselves. The in
telligent man, says Plato, will prize
those studies which result in his soul
getting soberness, righteousness and
wisdom, and will less value the 9TH
ers. Literature is one OF the lnstru-
ments, and most powerful instru-
ments, for forming character, for
giving us men and women armed
with reason, braced by knowledge,
clothed with steadfastness and cour-
age, and inspired by that public spir
it and virtue of which it has been
we'll said that they are the brightest
ornaments of the mind of man. Ba-
con is right, as he generally is, when
he bids us read not to contradict and
refute, nor to believe and take for
granted, nor to find talk aud discord,
but to weigh and to consider. And
in these times, and in the times be-
fore us, that promise or threaten
deep political, economical and sc al
controversy, what we need to do is
to induce our people to weigh and
consider. We want them to cultivate
energy without impotence. activity
without restlessness, and inAexibility
without ill humor.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-27
HA6GARD'S 'SHE."
A sUBJEu,IvB,Y PsTCuOLOGI.
CAT HOEK-rnE AUTHORS sAK
The Eject of Immortality working
Upon tho AtceTtsined Sub
stance of the Mortal.

She-Thoso who have read this
strange and fascinating novel will be
interested in the following to the
Spectator, written by the author,
Mr.. Ii. Rider Hag lard, by way OF ex
plauatiOn I'm the first place. an at
tempt is made to follow the action OF
the probable effects of Immortality
working upon the known and ascer-
tanned substance Of the mortal. This
is subject with prospective inter
est for us all. Secondly, the legend
is built up upon the hypothesis that
deep affection is in itself an immortal
thing. Therefore, when Ayesha in
the course of ages grows hard,
cynical, and regardless Of that which
stands between her and her ends,
her love yet endures, true and holy,
changelcss amidst change. There
fore, too. when at last the reward is
in her sight, and passion utterly
possesses her, it gives strength to cast
away the evil, aud what your re-
viewer considers inconsistent with
her nsture) even to do homage to
the majesty Of virtue. For
leve is to her saving
grace and gate of redemption,
her hardened nature melts in the
heats Of passion, and, as has hap.
pened to many other worldly minded
people, through the sacred agency of
love, she once more became Cor at
the moment imagined that she would
become) what she had been before
disillusion, disappointment, and 1000
wretohed years of loneliness had
turned her heart to stone. Lastly, it
occurred to me that in She herself
some readers might find type of in
tellectual paguanism, or perhaps
even of our own modern agnosti-
cism; OF the spirit, at any rate, which
looks to earth, and earth alone, for
its comforts and rewards. AL
through the book, although Ayesha's
wisdom tells her that there is some
ultimate fate appointed for man
which is unconnected with the world
Opp. 1877 and 237), it is to this world
only and its passions that she clings.
Even in the moment of her awful
end, she speaks of future earthly
meeting with the lover whom in the
past she had feared to follow into
death. When Holly, the Christian,
refuses her gift Of lite, and tells her
of his own hopes of immortality, she
Knocks him. TO her all religion is
but q subtler form of selfshness and
terror for the end. In the insolenoe
of her strength and loneliness she
lifts herself up against the Omnipo.
tent. Therefore, at the appointed
time she is swept away by 1t with
every circumstance OF shame and
hideous mockery." Vengeance, more
heavy because more long delayed
strikes her in her proudeSt part
her beauty; and in her lovers very
presence she is made to learn the
thing che really is, aud what is the
end OF earthly wisdom and of the
loneliness she priced so highly
These were some of the points which
occurred to me in connection with
Ayesha's character. If any reader
of the book is but half as much in
love with She as | confess to beinG
he will understand how necessary
thought her fate to the moral before
| could steel myself to bring her t
SUM al on1:
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-27
TMAOHERAY's REPLV To ANIS.
YITATION.
Had l but ton minutes sooner

Had but ton minutes sooner
Got your hOspitable line,
'TwOuld have been delight an honor
With gent lilo you to dine;
But my word Is pN'ssd to others,
Fits, no Is engaged too:
Agony nv bosom smOthers,
As writS adiou, adieui
Prom "UnPuhlished Letters Of Thack'
cray" in Scribncr's MdouSiHs for April.
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-05-09
IA Coniurer,s Clairvoyance.

But how shall we explain the second
sight, Of our dark cabinet wizards, Or
that much more undoubted faculty Of
seeing iii the dark which Samarkand
coniurer proved to the satisfaction of a
rather skeptical modern traveller, Pro-
fessor Ainericus Vambery, the foremost
Orientalist Of our century. The wizards
sanctum was q tent erected among the
bazars Of the open market place, but so
well drapcd with shawls and mats that
not the faintest CLEAN Of light could pene-
trate the gloom Of the interior. An Eng
lish officer, who had thought it worth
while to invest the small entrance fee, at
tested that in that absolute darkness of
his den the wizard had been able to dis
tinguish the printed from the blank leaves
Of an open book; but remembering that
white paper might shine with light of
its own, Professor Vambery proposed
q more critical test, and got his ser
want to procure piece Of charcoal and e.
small board. After waiting iii vain for.
his eyes to get used to the darkness, 1,
which, at the end Of five minutes, seemed
as absolute as ever, he put the board on
his knee and softly marked it with four
teen black spots and then held it up over
his head: Count that, oh, Hnkinl. =
Half score and q fourth 2 tfifteen spots),.
said the seer after a minutes pause
You guessed it very nearly, = laughed
the professor, but there are only four
teen, if my memory serves me right
1T doesn't, then, was the reply, and,
withdrawing one of the shawls, the
wizard admitted light enough to reveal
the disputed fifteenth spot--a small kEot
ho1e III the center of the board. The
second and third time he discounted that
center spot, and when Professor Vambery
left the tent he admitted that its proprie-
tor must have either gift of divination
or a pair Of owl eyes. Felix +. Oswald in
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-05-09

was "A i5onaHenbure,s store bne oones
afternoon when the door opened ana
what az nrst glance iooKeu 70 me 20 pe 2
small poy came IN. ~ g niotnenO more =
saw that 4 was ntSie oia gentleman,
nearly doubled up WITH some splnal weak
ness ana very snappiiy dressed, put
cieaniy Wlthal his race vas perIectly
spider weoDed with wrinkles ana ms pale
piue ewes seemed 70 SWIM II tn0Sture IN
side Their red and nanby Ids. He walked
Dragging nls Ieet on tne GROUND, anu was
perfect picture oIs reckless senihty
pannul % contemplate. He excnnnged
SOME low words, ~ french, with tne
bookseller, ana put q httie package IA ms